Monthly Archives: December 2014

Linkspam: December 26th, 2014

Every Friday, we will share links to news, blogs, and anything else we find interesting.  We can’t catch everything, so you are invited to self-promote in the comments! resourcesforacesurvivors put out a call for writing by ace survivors for ace survivors. … Continue reading

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Question of the Week: December 23rd, 2014

How do you feel about the cultural ubiquity of Christmas? That is, if you live somewhere where Christmas is culturally ubiquitous.  If you live somewhere else, tell us where, so we can plan our winter vacations accordingly. Christmas I don’t … Continue reading

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Linkspam: December 19th, 2014

Every Friday, we will share links to news, blogs, and anything else we find interesting.  We can’t catch everything, so you are invited to self-promote in the comments! Asexuality Archive posted An Asexual’s Guide to Having Sex. The Asexual Census … Continue reading

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Asexual activism in the Israeli military: an interview with Gaia Steinberg

 Gaia Steinberg is an activist in Israel.  They have done many talks about asexuality, primarily for the LGBT community, and lead the asexual contingent in Pride Tel-Aviv for three years.  But they first got involved in activism during their mandatory service to … Continue reading

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Some Reflections on Working on Asexuality in Academia as an Asexual Person

In the summer between the third and fourth year of my Bachelors I vowed to read every academic article that had ever been published on asexuality. I wanted to know what academics were telling other people about me, but that quickly … Continue reading

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Linkspam: December 12th, 2014

Every Friday, we will share links to news, blogs, and anything else we find interesting.  We can’t catch everything, so you are invited to self-promote in the comments! Ser speculates about nudity in a world where everyone is asexual. (content … Continue reading

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Open Thread: December 9th, 2014

Let’s try something different here.  We used to host open threads, but replaced them with more Questions of the Week, which seemed to be much more effective at starting discussion.  However, it’s been a long time since we tried, so … Continue reading

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Carnival of Aces: Expectations in friendships/relationships

Beyond the Rainbow has rounded up the links from the last Carnival of Aces, which had the theme “Expectations in friendship/relationships”.  You should take a look. The Carnival of Aces for December is being hosted by The Notes Which Do … Continue reading

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Linkspam: December 5th, 2014

Every Friday, we will share links to news, blogs, and anything else we find interesting.  We can’t catch everything, so you are invited to self-promote in the comments! Spade wrote about the idea of the oppressive prude. The Thinking Asexual … Continue reading

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Question of the Week: December 3rd, 2014

Bouncing off the discussion of preferred identity labels from a few weeks ago, I’ve been thinking about preferred terms for significant others (if you have one). Since I got married, I’ve noticed that a lot of people default to “wife” … Continue reading

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